I bought this belgian specialty from the Anker brewery since 13oo's for x-mas decor and am killing it in honor of simms's trey and the team effort tonight. This ale is well worth even a seemingly lofty asking price. Damn, how come the belgians don't dominate in all things and yet commonly fail to qualify for the world cup. They rule in brewing. From the cork to the cage to the label to looking at the product in a glass...wow. It has a bit of the winter ale sweetness I usually don't like but this it a cut above and worth it on a special occasion, like beating Iowa on the road. HEll yaeh.

It is because you are a true blooded fan. Through and through. Win or lose, it doesn't matter. The team, for better or worse, has a hold on your heart, your psyche. It doesn't let go in the bad times, it grips tighter. And because it grips tighter it hurts more, but when they turn it around, it will be that much better.

with his girlfriend Courtney Boylan. With her being a point guard and all, it might actually help him complete some passes. In all seriousness, though, he's not playing too poorly tonight. Making his shots, which is a nice change.

that the first half just ended... can someone give me a summary? Lost is almost done. Switched over on commercials, saw us make some threes. Checked the box score, looked like LLP hit a few in a row. Collapse at the end of half like usual?

Basically as you say...LLP hit a few, they ended up tying us on a couple free throws after time expired. Don't really know how they caught up there, except that we missed a bunch in a row. Sims struggled...missed several at point blank. Still shooting 52% but it seems like it's worse because of the drought at the end of the half.

The officiating in the BigTen has been pretty bad all year. I really hope they send these guys to some classes, eye doctors or something. I just don't understand how a conference could have such bad refs throughout the entire conference.

The worst part about this is that I can't even get all that upset about it because it means nothing (other than the obvious pride factor). The only way to the NCAA is to win the BTT. If they win a few of these, they go to the NIT, if they don't, they go to the CBI. What difference does it make?

Johnny Orr...Steve Grote...Ricky Green...Phil Hubbard...Mike McGee...Steve Grote...Jumping Jo-ell Thompson...Butch Wade....Richard Rellford...Roy Tarpley (yes)...Gary Grant...etc...etc...etc...happy with what coach B is doing, but not sure it'll get us back to competing on a national level...

A little out of context here, but I don't really think Beilein will get us to national championship calibur. I don't think that's what he was hired for though. I see him as coaching for 7-9 years, making 5 or 6 NCAA tournaments, being a consistent factor and not a joke. Then you bring in someone who takes the next step.

The brilliance of Coach Knight's commentary last week just makes it that much harder to listen to the hacks BTN has decided to employ. I won't pretend to know much about basketball, but I feel like tonight's color commentary made me dumber.

Im sorry, but im a bit old school and they have been putting a body on Sims the entire 2nd half. Is it too much to ask that if you're gonna foul Fuller could we at least make it more than a slap across the arms? I mean put a body into that guy geeze!

What a relief. I had to listen on cbssports.com which is always annoying, but happy to get the win. I have no illusions of a magical run, but it would be nice if we could finish with big ten record above .500

which ones would you take? Sims v. msu, manny's foul v. northwestern (we were up 1), and the late turnover v. bama. Win those 3 and we are probably on the bubble similar to last year. Fuck!!!! good win though. Go Blue!

That goes to show that this year isn't really all that different from last year. Last year those things all seemed to work out, this year they don't. Obviously we didn't see the improvement we were hoping for / assuming, but I don't think they're necessarily any worse than they were last year.

I like to equate '09 UM hoops to '06 Tigers baseball. Everything fell into place when it needed too. Then you have '10 UM hoops and '07 Tigers baseball. Theoretically better teams than the previous year that just didn't have things go their way.

I wish it didn't take extra steps to set my DVR (U-Verse) to record an extra 30 minutes. That 3-pointer to force OT was so exciting, but the realization that my recording ended in 3 minutes was so unexciting.

Yeah, I should've known better - I do this sometimes (especially for football games... you'd think somebody would know how long those last, by now), but thought that I would catch up to Live and this wouldn't even be an issue.

Comcast has the same prompt for live events - that's one of the few things they have done better than U-Verse, really.

and now watching the replay. I don't think people understand how much Sims does for this team offensively. In what I believe was only the final minute of regulation he has a put back and 1, another and 1 off penetration, and arguably the clutchest three of the year to tie the game. All in ONE minute.